HTC drops appeal of ITC decision favoring Apple

posted by Alan F. / Jun 14, 2012, 6:13 AM

According to a notice posted on the court's website on Wednesday, Taiwan based handset manufacturer HTC has decided to drop its appeal of a ruling made in Apple's favor. The ruling said that Apple did not infringe on an HTC patent relating to how mobile phones manage power supply. HTC filed to drop its appeal on May 31st and the permission to do so was granted on June 13th said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington..

"We believe the judge’s decision is erroneous as a matter
of law and will appeal the ruling to the Commission. We are confident in our ownership of the patents, and
that Apple infringes our intellectual property. We look forward
to presenting our case on the remaining patents to the judge at
trial later this year."-HTC statement

posted on Jun 14, 2012, 3:16 PM 2

Posts: 614; Member since: Jul 28, 2010

I know my first smartphone (HTC Universal in 2004) and most my others since then were HTC.. They made a great phone. Sad to see them flounder so.. they should drop Driod and make more WindowsPhones. WP is a gorilla when it comes to IP in the mobile industry. Apple wouldn't think of going against them, because they know half their iPhones are running on MS copyrights, and they would lose big..

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